There are many theories and reasons why World War One started off, in this post I’ll share my thoughts and theories on how World War One started and what lead up to the event. I believe World War One started because of the desire for strength and power in the nations, they also had the arms race Which they had to enter into to build their empires. I believe the war started way before the first shot was fired.

From 1841 to 1914 countrys across the world were trying to expand their empires, to help do this they would need the best military to expand their empire. Technology advanced new inventions in guns, ships, chemicals and tanks fed the aggression from countries. Nations across the world invested tins of money into funding the creation of these projects to advance their military’s, so they could grow upon and protect their territories. This along with extreme nationalism created an explsive environment in Europe.

Kaiser Wilhelm said in a speech: “We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun shall remain our undisputed possession, in order that the sun’s rays may fall fruitfully upon our activity and trade in foreign parts… The more Germans go out upon the waters, whether it be in journeys across the ocean, or in the service of the battle flag, so much the better it will be for us.”

This quote shows the extreme nationalist held by the German chancellor in 1901.

To support our thesis we had to create a visual to go along with it, we could get in to groups or create one on our own. I grouped up and together my group created a short comic and a video on the events leading up to World War One:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After presenting our video to the class we peer edited and gave each other feedback, our feed back was mostly positive. At some points the audio was a little quiet and that at sometimes there was background noise during the script part. In this project I learned a lot about World War One and the events leading up to it, I learned a lot more about the development of technology. This Project was very fun as we had a lot of time and freedom to complete it, we also had full creative control so we could do whatever we want as long as it was historically acurate and showed our learning.